Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-21
/ RUINED LIFE.
Pennsylvania Graduates With
High Hon0rS, Goes to California
and BmasSeG : Fortu7a,
lie Visits HIS Parents, ReneWs His En-
gugemqDt Vows, Returns West,
Spsculates and Dissip8tss.
ee Losss All, Becomes D!sleartsned, a
temps suicide the Day Before FITS
Wedding, and is Now Insane.


temps suicide the Day Before Ills
Wedding, and is Now Insane,
GLENvIEw, Pa, June 20.-O1 Monday
last Walter Wade, bold, dashing stock
and provision speculstor, came home
from California to fulfill 8 promise Of
marriage With Miss Fannie Eckert, which
was to take place at noon on Thursday.
The most elaborate preparations were
made, and the relatives and friends ofthe
young lady waited with every emotion Of
pleasure for the happy event, but Wsde's
recent i'll luck in the speculative
usld drove him to dispsir, and
rather thin face the disappointment
which would inevitably follow. He at
tempted 10 commit suicide on Wednes-
day, ana now lies hOCelessly Insane ct
the home of his parents, some distance
from this place. Walter Is the oulg son
OF J Werner Wade, who soon efteF his
marriage fell heir to a large fortune. Al
ter the young man Rad completed MS
collegiate studies, and hSd graduated
with high honoTs, he deciked
10 tske trip to California be
fore settlidg down, and SO in
informed his parents. They entreated
him to remain at home, but all 10 no
purpose. Appealing TO his father he
said "LOan me $1,000 and | will return
il with iaterest.n His father immg-
diateiy filed cut q check for the amount
and handed il TO him. The next day, after
spending gu hour with his intended
Jrlde, ne started for Californ in pursuit
Of fame and fortune. Four years after
ward his family snd friends were sur
prised to see hjr araiye home. lie
entered his fathers house as :though his
absence had been but for day, drew up
4 chair TO where his father sat, and
taking from g WelI-filed poBcetbouk
father, saying, "Here is The borrowed
money with per cent. interest" THIS
was all so rapidly done that Mr.. Wade
mad hardly time 10 realize who it Wss snd
wl&t IL meant. Then he related TO mis-
psTents how he mad met with PIE
nominal success and bv g sDaeWd
and conservative course had amGssed over
81 900, 600. After few DAYS stay, dur
ing which time he renewed his PLEDGES Of
love 70 Miss Eckert, VINO in the four
years OF visiting never doubted his sin
ceTi.y, he departed again. Letter after
letter wac received by her ia which be
boosted OF his success. and said
thst he was now p3rfeCting arrangements
to come home TO remain. The wedding
was therefore fixed for June IG, but his
character was too week 20 resist the
social temptations that now beset him.,
81 irresistible temptation for wine aGd
champagne, which was soon followed
by every form of wild and reckless
dissipation. Then luck turned against
him and ne began to lose money until his
fortune wss nearly all swept away. De-
pressed in spirits, the dsshing Spectator
returned home. His general appearance
was detected, and by the aid of stlmuEants
he managed 10 assume his old Spir-
its. In this way the suspicion
that might 9th srwise have been excited
was overcome. Wednesday afternoon he
remarked to mis- father that he desired to
write some business letters and for that
purpose he retired to his room, giving
instructions that his privacy must not
bG intruded upon. Everything in the way
of preparation for the next dayhsd reached
Il point of completeness and at D. N.
2 friend of the groom called to see him.
AS the matter was urgent his father went
upstairs and called him. He repeated
the call, and receiving no answer, forced
the door open. To his horror he beheld
mis- son suspended from halter strap,
with the end knotted around the top of
the bed post, almost dead from
strangulstiOn. He quickly cut
the strap and placed the body on the bed
and then summoned a physician. The
doctor said that another minute wouli
have produced death, and that while he
might recover be would be hOpelessly in
sane. The business letters which he was
supposed TO be writing to
Miss Eckert and his parents
They told Of his dissipation and his losses
at gambling and of his complete ruin.
He says in his letter TO the young lady:
"For many months l had constant run of
III luck. The srder of gambling unlike
every other passion rather increased than
diminished by loss and disappointment
without being warned therefore
by i'll success and still went on until the
very last dollar of my money was gone.
I then began 10 draw gradually on the
$4,000 you placed in my hands for safe
keeping until the day Of our marriage in
small amounts. Following the bent OF
an evil genius, sum after sum was taken
and all alike buried in that accursed
vortex which had already swallowed up
so much from me-"
To his father he says: 'fEighteen
months ago l attached my name to q
paper, the prospectus of which was
profitable land scheme. 1t originated
with sharpers, and ] WAS victimized. Pc
riodical speculations were INDUCED in,
and with the hope of rectifying some of
my losses hame east for a change. l
was persistent bull on the
stock market, and lost heavily last
December. l thereafter invested heavily
in Portland wheat and was completely
swamped
Immediately after the occurrence the
house was closed and Miss Eckert and
few friends were quietly notified. Miss
EcRert was completely prostrsted. For 6
few hours yesterday she sat by the bed
side of her lover and listened to his raw
ings over the stock and provision mar